• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2002.08a
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• pp.791-794
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• 2002

Cavity is inevitably included in automobile vehicle configuration. The complex unsteady flow and sound waves generated by the cavity are very important issues because of the involved fluid dynamics and the practical importance in the field of aerodynamics. The LES method used is a conventional one with Smagorinsky eddy-viscosity model and the computational grid is small enough to be handled by workstation-level computers. LES can successfully simulate of cavity noise analysis.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.100-107
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• 2010

This paper gives new conceptual descriptions of drag reduction mechanism owing to rotating wheel and moving ground condition when dealing with automotive aerodynamics. Using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), flow simulation of three dimensional automobile configuration made by Vehicle Modeling Function (VMF) is performed and the influence of wheel arch, wheels, rotating wheel & moving ground condition to the automotive aerodynamic performance is analyzed. Finally, it is shown that rotating wheel & moving ground condition decreases automotive aerodynamic drag owing to the reduction of the induced drag led by the decrease of COANDA flow intensity of the rear trunk flow.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.539-544
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• 2001

The holographic measurement techniques can be applied to various industrial fields such as automobile, airplane, construction, electronics, medical, mechanics and physics. The visualization of fluids is very important in aerodynamics, heat transfer and stress analysis. There are classically optical methods such as shadowgraph, schlieren method, and Mach-Zehnder interferometry for visualizing the fluid flow phenomena. But, it is difficult to understand the continuous state of fluids well in those methods. In this study, the real-time holographic interferometer with high-speed camera is applied to the flow visualization. In addition, collimated laser beam and rotating wedge are used for recording and formation of carrier fringes, respectively.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.33-41
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• 2000

Three dimensional flow fields around passenger car body was computed by PAM-FLOW, well-known and validated computer program for thermal and fluid analysis. Regarding the computational method, a Navier-Stokes solver based on finite element method with various turbulent models and adaptive grid technique (H-refinement)was adopted. The results were physically reasonable and compared with experimental data, giving good agreement. It was found that three dimensional flow simulation with H-refinement technique had potential for prediction of low fie이 around vehicle and the ability to predict vortex in the wake, which is vital for CFD to be used for automobile aerodynamic calculation.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.46-54
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• 1987

자동차의 외형을 설계하는 과정에서 미적인 관점을 떠나 역학적으로 고려할 때에는 공기역학이 매우 중요하게 된다. 이 분야에서 연구하는 전문가에게는 잘 알려진 내용이 될지는 모르겠으나 자동차의 설계 및 개발에 종사하는 일반연구자에게는 공기역학에 관한 문헌 및 전문서적 또한 주 위에서 쉽게 얻을 수는 있으나 부담없이 인식되기에는 그리 쉬운 일은 아니다. 이와 관련하여 Car Stying Volume 50+1/2의 별책으로 간행된 특집호에 여러 가지 흥미있는 내용이 기술 설명 되어 있다. 이는 1985년 발행되었으며 일본자동차연구소에 재직중인 무능진리씨가 해설하였다. 이후 본 내용은 여기서 발췌함을 밝혀둔다. 자동차에 관한 공기역확은 주로 다음과 같은 성능 향상을 위하여 필요하다. (1) 주행연료비 절약 (2) 최고속도의 향상 (3) 고속주행시 조종안정성의 향상 (4) 횡풍에서 주행안전성 향상 (5) 엔진이나 제동장치 등의 냉각성능 향상 (6) 바람에 의한 소음의 감소 (7) 환기성능의 향상 (8) 제상성능의 향상 (9) 공기 조화성능의 향상 (10) 먼지 또는 오물의 부착방지 및 억제 (11) 창문 와이퍼의 작동 등이다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.26-35
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• 2012

This paper investigates the influence on the aerodynamic performance of a passenger cruising very fast by some specific car body parts such as side mirrors, wheel arches and wheels designed hardly regarding aerodynamics. The magnitude of the contribution of each part is analyzed via on the CFD simulations. YF SONATA, a sedan of Hyundai Motors Company, plays a major role as the baseline car in this research, representing all passenger car. The CFD analysis condition consists of 6 different cases depending on whether each part exists or not. According to the CFD results, there were confirmed that additionally to the body parts' own drag, the car body went through somewhat the consequential increment of the drag by them. Among the 3 parts, wheel is the magnate that not only has the maximal drag but drives the drag of the passenger car to increase most steeply and the next is the side mirror.